Quotes about Acceptance

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.